This week we continued with our exploring time in
maths. We moved away from shape and focused on measurement. On Monday Mrs
Fulford introduced measurement to us and we brainstormed all the words we know
about measuring. When we had a list a words we then focused on 4 words which we
commonly use when describing measurement – long, wide, tall and high. Mrs
Fulford got us to play the left/right game for each word (stand on the left if
you think the word long means across or the right if it means up. She tricked
us a couple of times but after a few times playing we began to get it. After
the game Mrs Fulford talked about the activity for the day…measuring different
things around our class and school. But first we needed to know some units of
measurement. We learnt …
cm
– centrimetre m
– metre km – kilometre
Did you know that 100 centrimetres make 1 metre
and 1000 metres make 1 kilometre.
After learning about these units of measurement
Mrs Fulford went through the list of things we needed to measure. The first
thing was ourselves. We had a great discussion about how to do this…
1.
Get a buddy to draw around you
2.
Use a piece of string
3.
Put a pin in the wall (not wood part
though)
4.
Use the window chalk and draw line on
the window
Once Mrs Fulford showed us how to use the
different measuring tools (rulers of different sizes and trundle wheel) by
measuring her car’s height and length as well as the width of her tyres, then we went
off exploring. Here are some photos and videos of our measuring.
When we finished measuring we came back inside and
talked about what we measured and what discoveries we had made. Then we lined
up according to our height. Check out the video to see who is the tallest child.
We discussed other ways of measuring like volume, age, weight and money. We
decide to measure ourselves using our age as well. In Room 24 Olivia is the
oldest child and Starlite is the youngest. Mrs Fulford is the oldest person!
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